cita (6236)

cita
Entry 6236, Page 229, Col. 1

(cita, cita)
cita¦ (orig. ppp. of Skt. ci-), orig. piled up, heaped up; so, thick, dense (of hair), stout, large (of fingers), full, stout (of the space between the shoulders), in cpds. (1) cita-keśa, having thick, dense hair, one of the anuvyañ- jana of the Buddha: Mvy 343 = Tib. stug pa, dense, thick; Mv ii.44.10, so read with one ms., the other vivitra° (Senart em. citra°); instead Dharmas 84 has citra-keśa, which I believe is certainly a corruption; lacking in the LV list; (2) citāṅguli, with stout, large fingers, another anuvyañjana: Mvy 274 (here Tib. rgyas = large); con- firmed by Pali acc. to Burnouf, Lotus, 585; this time the corruption citrā° (above) is more widespread, being printed in Mv ii.43.9 (only one ms., lacuna in the other); Dharmas 84 (but one ms. ciṃtā°); and LV 106.12--13 (Lefm. anu- pūrvacitrāṅguliś ca, combining this with anupūrvāṅguli; most mss. have the reverse order, as does Tib., which also renders by rgyas pa = large, proving that it had citā° [Page229-b+ 71] and not citrā°); (3) citāntarāṃsa (or °śa) (= Pali citan- taraṃsa, e.g. DN ii.18.10; comm. ii.449.6 antaraṃsaṃ vuccati dvinnaṃ koṭṭhāsānaṃ antaraṃ; taṃ citaṃ pari- puṇṇaṃ assā ti), with full, well filled-in, space between the shoulders, one of the 32 lakṣaṇa: Mvy 251, Tib. thal goṅ rgyas pa = large shoulders; so also Tib. on LV 105.18; all lists of the lakṣaṇa (q.v.) intend the same form, only varying between °āṃsa and °āṃśa. In Gv 69.26 read citta with 2d ed. for cita; see s.v. avabhā. See also next.

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